Posing is child's play for Kidman

Nicole Kidman has posed on the cover of Harper's Bazaar with her daughter Faith Margaret, who is 18 months old.

The candid snap was taken on a country property outside Sydney.

According to an Eastern States newspaper, the shoot was meant to be about Kidman, who is married to The Voice coach Keith Urban, showcasing the latest fashions.

But Kidman brought her two girls, Faith and three-year-old Sunday Rose to the set and they all ended up posing for the camera.

"Kidman didn't want to put them down," Harper's Bazaar editor Edwina McCann said. "Sunday Rose donned one of the tuxedo jackets from the clothing racks. The photographer then took some shots of Kidman with the girls solely for her family album."

And after seeing the images, Kidman agreed for them to appear in the magazine.

Meanwhile, her eldest daughter has insisted she is still "very close" to Kidman.

Isabella Cruise - the adopted daughter of the actress and her ex-husband Tom Cruise - has not appeared in public with her mother for several years but she has denied there is a rift in the family.

She told New Idea magazine: "I love mom. She's my mom. She's great. I see her sometimes and I speak to her.

"We're a very close family. I love all of our family."